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I am a stay at home mom of 3 sweet girls, who are 10, 7, and 6, and married to my handsome husband for 12 years now. This is the first year that all of my girls are in school full day so that means I have about 6 hours a day to fill. Thus, this is how this blog came about. Birthed out of boredom you could say. We shall see how it goes.

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Sunday, April 18, 2010

OK, just a short post for now to catch myself up a bit, at least in terms of my kitchen activity...

Here are my latest, Easter Cookies. :)

And I tried my hand at some Springy Caramel Apples for all of the cousins...

And just for good measure, I will post a pic of my St. Patrick's Day Cookies too!

As far as Easter itself goes, we all had a wonderful day with family, the kids got lots of candy of course, and the Easter Bunny even left a picture of himself for Madison because she left him a note asking for one. :) Imagine that?! Now that they know what he looks like, they are a bit creeped out about it lol. Too bad the Easter Bunny didn't take that little tid bit into consideration before leaving them an autographed pic. hmmm.

Friday, January 29, 2010

OK, so it all started with trying to come up with something somewhat creative for my dear friend's birthday. I've already given her a couple of scarves and didn't want to go that route (and be dubbed forever 'scarf lady')... so this is what I came up with....

She loved it and when I posted it on my FaceBook page, I got alot of positive feedback. Sooo I decided to post some pictures of Valentine cookies to see if anyone might be interested in ordering any. And so far, I've gotten several orders. Hopefully I'm not in over my head here ;).

Saturday, December 26, 2009

OMG, I can't believe that I haven't posted anything since early November... and that my last post was all about 2nd grade knife drama! lol... BTW, knife boy no longer attends our quaint little elementary school. :) Tho I think he does still co-exist within our district so Jr. High otta be fun!

OK, welll part of the reason it's taken me sooo long to post anything is that I've been crocheting like a MAD woman! Seriously! I kid you not!! I believe that I managed to crochet something to the effect of 25 scarves for a Christmas Boutique (which maybe 6 or 7 were purchased LOL, and therefore the rest were given as gifts ;) )....

The ornaments were copied after Laura's ideas and given to my mom as part of her Bday gift :)... and the Cake Balls which are ALWAYS a HUGE hit didn't sell all that well at the boutique but we figured that they weren't 'marketed well' :) and will do better next year. Therefore they too, were given away as happy gifts! :) And this too was just my version of Christy's recipe! :)

OK really, there aren't enough words for this.... If you could see it up close in person, you would get the full affect. CRAZY, or RIDICULOUS as my husband says..... no stencils BTW, allllll freehand, painted, paintbrushes, etc.... I know, crazy goooood right!!! Again... my most favorite present EVER!! Priceless!!! Let me just say... that my kids have been instructed VERY SPECIFICALLY that if they EVER, EVER, EVER TOUCH IT THEY WILL DIE!!! Of course, I say that in the most loving most nurturing tone possible ;). Even Greg has schooled the girls on the fact that they are not allowed to touch it and this in fact will become an heirloom that will be passed down among the generations. :) I LOVE that!! :) Thank you my sweet friend Christy!!!

OK, so blog now updated for December as far as crocheting, ornaments, crafting, gifts received, etc....

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

OK, I wasn't even sure that I wanted to post this, but maybe I just need to vent, and really, what better place to do so than my own blog, right?

My girls go to a small elementary school in Yorba Linda (AKA ""The Land of Gracious Living"), and we feel safe in our little community and school of 500 students. Well, at least we did until yesterday. There is something very seriously wrong with our world when a 7 year old shows up at school with a large buck/utility style pocket knife in his back pack (oh yeah, and a lighter). And let me tell you, this was no little swiss army knife. The term Pocket Knife is a bit mis leading in my opinion in this particular case. It was probably about 4 inches long FOLDED. I didn't open it up but I would imagine that the blade was at least 3 inches long. And as if this in itself isn't BAD ENOUGH, this comes just 5 days after this particular boy told my sweet little introverted, kind hearted, shy little 7 year old Madison, that he was going to"beat her up and kill her and he hoped that her blood didn't get all over his hands". I kid you not!!

ARE YOU AS SCHOCKED AND ALARMED AS I WAS???

Well, it is being handled, but I feel as though it took some aggressiveness on my part to get the principal to take the matter as seriuosly as it actually is. And much to my dismay, it doesn't appear that the boy will be expelled, but he was at least suspended yesterday and today. The matter isn't closed as they have to meet with him and his parents, so we shall see.

Madison seems fine, though she hasn't been in class with the boy since it happened. She was definitely affected by his words last week but recovered from it quite well. Now this. Yesterday she came home "sick" with a stomach ache and headache and had some issues when it was bed time. This morning she seemed perfectly fine though she knew the boy wasn't going to be at school today. So we will see what tomorrow brings. I will keep you posted.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

My latest kitchen adventure this week, since cake class is over, was Halloween Cookies. Let me just say that I will not be doing this again next Halloween unless I contract some kind of amnesiac condition (which, sadly, has been known to happen). This took farrr longer than I had remembered it taking. Then I thought, "Oh yeah, that's what I say every Christmas when I make my Christmas Cookies!"

Whatcha think?

This was the first time I've done them at Halloween. And the first time that I used a piping bag and cake decorating tip on them, which I am actually pretty pleased with! Made it easier and more accurate I think.

Fall Festival....

We took the girls to our church's annual Fall Festival and they had a blast. Rock Climbing Wall, Bungee Jump (Montana smiled as wide as I've ever seen her the entire time she was on this!), Inflatable Slide, Pony Rides, lots of candy and friends! A good time was had by all!